Monthly Archives: August 2010

LIBPF development team has recently moved from subversion to the Git distributed version control system. The tool is very good and there is quite a lot to learn; today we are sharing a shell script we have written to report … Continue reading →

With the transition from the 32-bit x86 architecture to the 64-bit amd-64 and the increasing diffusion of mobile development platforms, the question “what is the size of an int” pops up frequently. If you want to know what applies to … Continue reading →

Every time I step onto an airplane I shiver at the thought that the engineers who designed it might have used Excel (or any other spreadsheeting tool for what matters) for their calculations. It’s time for a good rant against … Continue reading →

Plone is the best Content Management System (CMS) around, and WordPress is the best blogging platform in the marketplace. What’s about integrating them ? Now. If your time budget is in the weeks range, there’s a state-of-the art technique you … Continue reading →

These instructions are for those of you who are in a paper-saving mood, and want to print on the front and the back of each sheet of paper (duplex or “fronte-retro”), but own a cheap one-way printer. [This was tested … Continue reading →